aidsmap news from Achieving the 90-90-90 target

As well as the important findings
of PopART, the largest HIV prevention trial ever conducted, this week’s
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle heard
about several other studies from African ...

Communities in southern Africa which received a door-to-door HIV testing
intervention and support for linkage to care had substantially lower HIV
incidence, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2019) in ...

Same-day provision of results from a point-of-care viral
load test – rather than waiting weeks for laboratory results to be collected –
resulted in a 14% improvement in virological suppression and retention ...

Patient-provider relationships are strained by poor working
conditions and rigid application of one-size-fits-all models of care, according
to an in-depth investigation of why people with HIV drop out of HIV treatment
services in ...

Funders, health providers and advocates should take lessons
from the rollout of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an HIV
prevention measure in Africa if they wish to hasten access to programmes
providing ...

HIV testing and treatment
programmes in sub-Saharan Africa need to prioritise older individuals,
according to research published in PLOS
ONE. Investigators in Uganda found that after starting antiretroviral
therapy (ART) people aged 50 years ...

A prospective study that recruited a significant proportion of people newly diagnosed with HIV in four locations in Indonesia and
offered them immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) found that only 35% of
them ...

The European
region of the World Health Organization (WHO) is close to achieving the UNAIDS
90-90-90 target, according to research published in the Journal of Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndromes. Data collected in 2016 ...

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use is accelerating among men who have sex with men and transgender women in two south-east Asian countries where it is receiving funding and government support, the ...

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